All the lolcasts out there never come here. We can rant all we want... why did we think the players that don't put any RP effort into it would actually come here and read this? Let alone defend their actions!
Admins/devs need to step in on this one sometime soon... it's getting out of hand lately.
Today, I was stopped between Denver and Newark running superconductors hoping to make 400k (tops) in a short run. Everyone's favorite type of pirate was waiting right next to the gate -- of course in his Tridente, flying Freelancer IFF so he won't get shot by the lanes or come up hostile to scans. Indie pirate ID so he can dock wherever. Naturally.
Anyway, guy demands $5M to start (!!!), and then "settles" on me dropping ALL of my cargo. As if the guy could even take it. Heaven forbid he RP a reason besides 'u can't pay tax, u lose cargo.'
Story ends when he starts shooting me without giving me the notice, and the LN shows up in time to let me get away. (Thanks to those guys, btw. Never got a chance to formally say thank you because I had to immediately defend Trenton from another outcast trying to pirate one of our guys parked OUTSIDE OUR BASE AT MANHATTAN.)
Think it's always been this bad? Just check all of the new topics out here in the past week. How many are devoted to rants/complaints/debates about excessive piracy and non-RP players? And who's listening, anyway?
It's gonna make a dent on the total number of players sooner or later... mark my words.
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